When Freya met Aiden

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They went into the next room and his face was a picture, bless him. He walked slowly all the way around. "Can I have three things Freya? Or is that to cheeky?" "You can have as many as you want Jed, what are you after?" "I know" said Aiden "you'd like the red roses and jasmine bushes, you were thinking of the daisies, but you thought 'no, I'll have the roses'" "how did you know?" "The way you lingered by them, but what's the story behind the roses or the daisies?" "Well my wife, Mary's her name, loves roses, we have some in the garden, but times were hard when we were young, so I couldn't afford roses, but you could pick those big daisies in the fields, so I picked her some when I could and our neighbor would let me have a couple of roses now and then, so Mary would have a bunch of daisies with the odd rose in with them. She used to say she'd be happy with just the daisies as they came from my heart, but I'd like to give her some roses now, if you don't mind me taking some, and she loved the smell off Jasmine so they'd be lovely planted by her grave, and they'd be there ready for when it's my time" "oh Jed, that's so beautiful, she sounds a very special lady" and with shame in her face, Freya cried. Jed hugged her "don't cry Freya, we were happy and we will be again, just like you and Aiden. You take care of her Aiden, Freya's a special lady" "I will Jed, I will. Freya's as special to me as Mary is to you, I love her with all my heart" and the soppy sod had tears in his eyes. "So, you'd like the Jasmine bushes and the roses, is that right Jed?" "yes please, I'll have to ask Gladys if they'll be alright here till tomorrow, I won't be able to carry them home tonight" "right that's sorted, are you going to come back to our table with us and have a nightcap, before you go home?" Asked Aiden "do you mind? I mean you're with your friends" "of course we don't mind, your our friend now Jed, so come on and let's have a nightcap" said Aiden. 

Freya went to the counter, while Aiden took him to their table, "Jed's joining us for a nightcap, I don't know if he'll fancy something to eat, I'd hate to think of him going hungry, if he hasn't got much money Gladys" "don't worry about Jed, I make sure he has at least one hot meal a day, and he takes 'leftovers' home with him" "Your a good woman Gladys, he's a lovely man, he wants to leave his flowers here till tomorrow, as he can't carry them home tonight" "that will be fine, I'll get Ethan to put them in the back, when he comes in, then he can run Jed and his roses to the cemetery tomorrow and put the Jasmine bushes into Jed's back garden, he'll be fine." Freya went back to the table and Charles was having a laugh with Jed, Aiden pulled Freya towards him "hello gorgeous, where have you been all my life?" "living in Wales with my daughters, two of which are older than you" "pardon, you're old enough to Aiden's mother, you don't look old enough Freya" said Gwyn "aww thank You Gwyn, you're lovely" and she gave him a peck on the cheek. "Hey no kissing other men, told you before, all you're kisses are mine" "yes boss" and Freya gave him a kiss. "Right now I got you back here, why did GWS tell you his plans?" "I said I was taking Freya back home, after the Canadian part of the tour was finished, so he said 'well if you're taking Freya back to the UK I've got my private Jet here, and when I've finished some business, I'll be flying back to London' so that's why he told me, he was offering us a lift back to London" "has he got a thing for you Freya? He's not usually so nice to people" said Bill "nice to people, nice. He orders hits on people if they upset him, I wouldn't call him nice, he's an utter bastard" "well he's nice to you, look at all those flowers and I think, and I don't want to upset you now, but I think that Morris and Jasper got hit because they were going to rape you, I told you he really likes you and God help anybody that upsets you" "look Charles, do you think Bill's right?, Because I'm not upset, I'm officially worried now" "why are you worried?" "Why do you fucking think I'm worried?!!! I thought you were an intelligent man, work it fucking out. I'll kill the bastard that's what I'll do, where's he staying, is he at the hotel?" Freya got up to go upstairs for my guns "where are you going darling?" "Nowhere to concern you, you stay put, and I'm taking the car, hopefully I won't be long, I love you" and she kissed him quite passionately. Aiden grabbed her arm "you're not going anywhere like this, Charles? I don't know what's going on but stop her can't you?" "Freya? calm down, I don't think he ordered the hit because of you, I'm sorry Bill but I think you're talking through your ass, he wouldn't do anything like that, it would make him vulnerable, he doesn't have a weak spot and definitely not a woman" "well what I know about him, I think you're wrong, I think he has got a weak spot, and that's Freya" "and I think you're both crackers. He could have the pick of women, why would he be fixated about me, for god's sake, I've seen pictures of him with really beautiful young women, model types, why the fuck would he want me?"